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Why do you act like it's a given that it's in a British citizen's interest to increase immigration? This goes for British citizens of South Asian descent. What
by gettodachoppa 3y ago
Why do you act like it's a given that it's in a British citizen's interest to increase immigration? This goes for British citizens of South Asian descent. What have they got to gain?
I'm always surprised to see people with this "we need endless immigration or you won't have diverse restaurants" mentality. And it's always coming from the most privileged people in society, and always condescendingly talking down to people who don't vote like they do. (i.e. people like Guardian writers and you)
- floren 3y ago"Vote against their own interests" almost always means "vote contrary to my preferences, the imbeciles".
- swores 3y agoNonsense. It means people voting for policies that they think will be positive for their lives but actually are negative for them. Which is a very common occurrence, regardless of your apparently disliking people pointing it out.
- krisoft 3y agoMaybe, but not in this case. In this case the person in question was promised something ("more favourable terms for south Asian immigrants"). He voted accordingly. His side of the vote won. And he got the exact opposite as a result.
- paxys 3y agoRtfa. Restaurant owners voted for brexit in the hopes that it would help them import more cheap labor. Surprise – the exact opposite happened.
- adammarples 3y agoImmigration to Britain has been at record highs since brexit, particularly non EU immigration. It seems they were exactly right on the money.
- rhaway84773 3y agoExcept it’s not the people they were expecting. It’s largely students and fruit pickers. The former because the UK needs the money (and the US has become increasingly hostile) and the latter because they need the labour. So yeah, it worked for some definition of worked where the thing happened, but not at all in the way or with the outcome they wanted it to happen.